Nice article (Thanks for the pointer, Dave!) on how to configure Community Server (CS) to work for a single blog setup – i.e, www.roudybob.net. 

Update 2-3-05:  Also, here's a post on the Community Server forums which may have additional information if you're running into issues - http://www.communityserver.org/forums/470260/ShowPost.aspx.

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Howto: Single Blog/Gallery Site Configuration - Community Server (dkekish)

http://www.qgyen.net/blog/articles/cs_howto_single_site.aspx

Short article on how to configure Community Server to work using a single blog/gallery configuration (ie, for personal sites) in only 7 steps using a customized SiteUrls.config. Feel free to send me any issues you may have configuring it. I've done it using those steps on my own website (www.qgyen.net), one of my other sites (www.kenandtrish.com), and using a local RC1 build (used while writing the article).

Ken (ala NGallery fame) has posted an article on how to set community server up for a single blog.   I’m hoping to work on this tonight.

Virtualization.info (a great site, btw) points to a new x86 emulator for the Mac.  I’ve used VPC on the Mac and can tell you it does a rather nice job - but is INCREDIBLY slow – even on the fastest G4 out there.  I think (besides price) the only reason somone would look at an alternative is to get an increase in performance. 

Alas, I am not able to tell whether or not this product is worth the $69.99 they’re charging because they don’t have a trial version of the software.  I thought software companies had long ago figured this out – people won’t pay to try something new and unproven in the market. I think someone needs to pick up a copy of “Creating Customer Evangelists” (by Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba) and learn how to make bit-size chunks. 

http://www.virtualization.info/200502archive001.asp#1107348120001

Quoting from MacCentral:

Microsoft's Virtual PC software has some new competition from Dublin, Ireland-based Lismore Software Systems Inc. Lismore on Tuesday announced the release of Guest PC 1.0, a new PC emulation software for Mac OS X. The application emulates the inner workings of a PC-compatible computer, enabling Mac users to run software that's not compatible with their native operating system. Lismore is a veteran of the PC emulation market on the Macintosh; the company previously released Blue Label PowerEmulator, a PC emulator for Mac OS 9 and earlier operating systems that's been around since the late 1990s.

Did you know that it was possible to custom order M&Ms? 

http://shop.mms.com/customized/index.asp?cid=1&UID

Chrissy LeMaire has done a really cool thing.  She has started a spam blog.  No, not a blog about SPAM the processed meat.  Although, I am sure there is one for that as well.  And, while I’m off the subject, did I ever mention that I once worked with a guy who collected processed, canned meat from around the world!?  Now, back to the post.

She has started http://www.canblogspam.com.  A site dedicated to elminating blog spam by spreading news about solutions and trends.  And it’s “non-partisan” according to her mission statement which promises to help people using all blogging platforms and OSes.  Well, not ALL OSes – I’m sure she isn’t going to have a section on preventing blog spam on your Commodore64–based blog.  What a cool idea!

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I've always been interested in the fight against spam. I've been actively fighting it since 1998 when I created a procmail spam filter called SPAST. Since then I've ported it to Exchange and in a way, ported it again to .Text. I've always had a keyword approach to fighting spam. I've whitelisted and I've blacklisted (but I've yet to greylist) and I've been very pleased with the results. It doesn't work for everyone but it works for me.

 

Because blog spam is created solely for boosting search engine keywords, a keyword approach to fighting spam seems, for the first time, to be an elegant solution to spam. And this excites me. So much, in fact, that I bought a domain and created a blog specifically for fighting blog spam. It's called CanBlogSpam.com and here's its mission statement.

CanBlogSpam.com is a non-partisan blog spam fighting resource that caters to all blogging platforms including Windows-centric apps, Unix-centric apps and Blogging Services such as Blogger.com. PHP, ASP, Perl, Java, SQL -- if its used to blog, we'll write about it.

 

Feel free to use this blog to promote your anti-spam tool -- if you've got a new solution, we'd like to hear about it.  We'd also like to hear about your favorite solution or if you tried a tool that did not work so well.

 

If you've got news, solutions or tips please contact us. Be sure to leave a link if you'd like a trackback.

 

This blog started in the late hours of February 1, 2004 and currently, the only “we“ is me -- creator of a tech-centric blog from the left. I/we thank you for your patience while this site gathers momentum and the database of solution reviews, news and trend information grows.

I plan to review every type of spam solution I can find and try to keep as objective of a view as possible. I'm open-minded to change and realize that the solution that works for me may not work for others. I'm excited to see if we can actually win this round. If you want to be part of this, please let me know. The .Text blog isn't setup as a community server but I'd be willing to poke around with it and upgrade if there's interest.

 

I'm excited about the layout of the site. Thanks again to RoudyBob for providing such nice skins. So far, I've written a few things and added anti-spam books to the bookshelf .Text add-on also by RoudyBob. I've also posted about Blog Spam Press: Interview with a Link Spammer, WordPress: Combat Comment Spam and General Concepts: Moderating All Comments. Check it out :)

Dave Kekish must sit patiently by his RSS aggregator and wait for the Community Server announcements to come in.  I swear I think he knows there’s a new release before Rob and Scott know.  ;-)  Thanks for the link, Dave.

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They just released Release candidate 1 of Community Server.   Hopeing to spend some time tonight and get it running by this weekend.

You can snag it here: http://www.telligentsystems.com/Solutions/license.aspx?File=cs-rc1.exe